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5:00 AM ET, December 20, 2016

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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
Reporters who attended Trump's off-the-record briefing on Sunday evening receive Twitter backlash after posing for a photo with the President-elect  —  On Sunday night, President-elect Donald Trump held a 30-minute, off-the-record chat with his press pool inside his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, FL.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
News orgs including The New York Times and Axios defend the off-the-record event with Donald Trump, say OTR is a good way to get closer to the truth  —  Reporters hung out with Donald Trump over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, though American news consumers won't be reading too much about the event.
Discussion: @peteymenz, @erikwemple and Poynter
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Media outlets, which are at risk of getting played by Trump, need to challenge the President-elect instead of going off the record with him  —  How quickly we forget.  Just a few months ago, Donald Trump was conducting an unprecedented attack on the mainstream press by keeping them in pens at his rallies …
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Trump held a 30-minute off-the-record meeting with the press Sunday evening, at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, more than 140 days after his last press conference  —  held an off-the-record conversation with reporters on Sunday evening.  —  While the topics of conversation were not reported …
Jack Mirkinson / Fusion:
Longtime AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici praised for astonishing courage as he documented the murder of Russia's ambassador to Turkey  —  The news that Russia's ambassador to Turkey had been murdered reverberated around the world on Monday.  Beyond the obviously grim nature of the news …
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Vanity Fair reporter Tina Nguyen, who skewered the Trump Grill, says she was “shocked” by Trump's tweet and feared being doxxed by his supporters  —  Choking down “flaccid, gray Szechuan dumplings” and dealing with bathrooms that “transport diners to the experience of desperately searching …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
November's election and Trump's attacks on media fuel support for trusted, verified journalism
Knight Foundation:
For the next month until January 19, 2017, the Knight Foundation will match donations from individuals to non-profit news orgs, up to a total of $1.5M  —  The Knight News Match is a call to action for everyone who believes in quality, trustworthy, in-depth journalism and the role nonprofit …
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ annual report: at least 48 journalists killed in relation to their work in 2016, with outstanding questions about 27 other cases  —  Also Available in Español, , Français, Português, , Türkçe  —  Deadly violence against the media eased in 2016 …
Tanzina Vega / CNNMoney:
How newsrooms can foster diversity by hiring outside of obvious silos, developing talent from within, confronting internal biases, and more  —  Hollywood inequality is a top down problem  —  On Sunday, the New York Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote a column that cut deep to the bone …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter will livestream the Golden Globes' red carpet pre-show and collaborate with the Hollywood Foreign Press to source questions from fans' tweets  —  The Golden Globes' red carpet is coming to Twitter.  That's right: not the award show itself, but rather the pre-show event where the celebs walk …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter tests breaking news push notifications, sends news updates on the Berlin Christmas market attack and Fidel Castro's death  —  Twitter wants to be a news app, having recently moved to that category from the “social networking” category in the iOS App Store.
Anna North / New York Times:
Teen Vogue says it will continue to cover Trump's presidency aggressively, using personal narratives by teen girls to explore political issues  —  Lots of adults started paying attention to Teen Vogue recently.  It started with an opinion article by Lauren Duca, the magazine's weekend editor …
New York Magazine:
New York Magazine debuts a premium subscription for $9.99/month or $99/year, offering readers email newsletters, invites to events, private Instagram feed, more  —  New York Magazine today announced the launch of New York by New York, a premium membership program that offers insider access …
Discussion: @joepompeo, @jyarow and @noahchestnut
 
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